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In Conversation: Elizabeth Marincola & Tom Kariuki, Science for Africa Foundation 


For our ‘In Conversation’ series, Martin Wilson, Head of Content at Taylor & Francis, interviewed the Science for Africa Foundation’s Founding Chief Executive Officer, Professor Tom Kariuki, and Senior Advisor for Open Science, Elizabeth Marincola.   The Science for Africa Foundation is the founding partner of Open Research Africa, the F1000 publishing hub which enables the rapid sharing, discovery, use and reuse of African research to the benefit of all. This three-part interview co...

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Open Insights: Open research in India


At F1000, we believe that open research from diverse communities is central to meaningful scientific progress. This year, as part of our 10th anniversary celebratory activities, we’ve asked experts to take stock of the progress they’ve seen in their countries over the last 10 years, to gain a deeper insight into open research practices and perceptions around the world. In this contribution to the series, Punyasloke Bhadury, Professor of Biological Sciences at the Indian Institute of...

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Open Insights: Africa’s scientists on the climate crisis, a continent’s approach


On the eve of the UN’s International Mother Earth Day on Saturday (22 April), we invited leading experts from the Science for Africa Foundation (SFA), Tom Kariuki, Founding Chief Executive Officer, Elizabeth Marincola, Senior Advisor for Communications and Advocacy, Judith Omumbo, Senior Program Manager, and Kabura Ciigu, Strategy & M&E Manager, to discuss the increasing effects of climate change in Africa and how ecological and economic progress can be achieved with multiple stakeholder...

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Why interoperability matters for open research


Ten years ago, when we launched the open research publishing venue F1000Research, scholarly publishing approaches and practices to support open research were a universe away from where we are now. Today, many of the reservations we encountered have gone, and open and transparent ways to share and validate research are becoming much more commonplace: for example, the requirement for authors to share their data openly as part of the publishing process, and for peer reviewers to provide their revie...

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